Blues

'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces t...

Bobby Womack was born on 4 March 1944, and died on 27 June 2014, aged 70. In a career that spanned two centuries and seven decades, the soul singer...

The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflecti...

Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scenes raucous heyday. Whats more, unlike most artists in this ...

'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President B...

It is no easy feat to capture the enormous spirit of Stevie Ray Vaughan a man whose presence in the world was like an untamable fire shooting fla...

This book, the result of a lifetime of listening and 30 plus years of research, focuses on the magic that is jazz, particularly the element of Tric...

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didnt name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without ...

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-America...

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-America...